The world we inhabit is a material world, we perceive it through our senses, we discover and learn about the objects through the employ of these senses and we acquire what we obtain from getting in direct contact with everything that is around us.
Beauty is found everywhere our eyes can reach, natural beauty with the wonders of the magical landscape and the breath taking picturesque scenery of the sky, the moon, the sun and the trees that stand the test of time and endure the four seasons each with a specific appeal that nurtures our need for a daily dose of splendor and enchantment. Eyes are made for looking, what is more divine that looking into the eyes of someone we love? What is more delightful that witnessing the marvels of a happy face with a beautiful smile that can wash away the cruelty that stains and pollutes our sight when we live in a hostile environment?
When we touch textiles and fabrics, or when we embrace another human being, we engage the sense of touch to bridge the gap we have between our two worlds, this interaction allows us to seize our understanding of them and we can learn a lot about who we are as well as who they are to us, and as a result either cohere or disconnect to and from them.
When we inhale fragrances, we allocate our mind to reject or to accept the aroma we are smelling, and that particular scent is our gate to recognize and discern between an odor we enjoy and one that we decline, we fill up our smelling reservoir with perfumes that awakens our brains to mastering the world of hints and traces that linger in our memory and thus decode the unknown strange riddle of what it is like to smell.
When we eat, we get to taste different flavors and be selective of what we favor, and what we repel, what stirs our appetite and arouse it and what kills our taste buds for a savor or a tang of what we find delicious and mouth watering and what we find tasteless.
When we succumb to a certain sound, whether in mother nature, or a piece of music, we identify with it and it will shake our inner world and summon our deepest longing for a soothing melody or an angry one or a romantic one, may it be the voice of thunder, the voice of a lover or the sound of falling rain that connects us to the nostalgia we have for anything that was once ours but we lost somewhere along the line.
We live and depend on the leash of our five senses, our first encounter with the world is through the radar of our mind we detect and find ourselves when find something or someone or somewhere that makes us spend our five senses together so we can experience the unseen and ethereal world when we leave our material secular senses to reach a higher state of becoming one with the object we get in touch with.
When we reach a point where we do not need our eyes to see and our nose to smell, our ears to listen and our mouth to taste, then and only then we can master the use of our five senses and know that it is not only by touching that one can feel nor by looking can be see the things that can be felt rather than seen for how many of you look but fail to see, touch but fail to feel, smell but fail to inhale, taste but fail to savor,hear but fail to listen?
Lina Hanna Hanna.
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